Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [vb -s] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The user is then free to choose the environment which best matches their use characteristics or which improves their aggregate efficiency measured in time , error or quality terms . |
| 2 | The sufferer must know that he or she has your full attention and that you are on his or her " side " . |
| 3 | Failure to talk about sexual needs may mean that the individual does not consider it to be a problem , or that he or she finds it embarrassing to discuss such matters . |
| 4 | You will have read enough apparently contradictory facts about what you can and ca n't eat to drive you to drink ( or chocolates , cakes , cheese sandwiches or whatever constitutes your particular downfall ) . |
| 5 | I think we even heard the cry , we want a minimum , we want a minimum wage , and everyone knows what that would do to the unemployment figures . |
| 6 | He is a ‘ movie ’ man ; and nothing does him greater credit than his energetic campaign to get Kodak to mend their stock , so that colour-films of the past do not automatically fade and turn green . |
| 7 | To-day , the world 's great athletes in almost every sport have the opportunity to earn large sums of money as a result of their skill and dedication , and no-one begrudges them that , but the Olympians compete in the Olympic Games solely for the glory and the chance of winning a gold , silver , or bronze medal . |
| 8 | Er I 'm not sure er er I 'm sure there 's a place for them you know and someone wants them that 's lovely but we 're not hearing enough really of the Beautiful Dreamers would n't you agree ? |
| 9 | Our concern is with that huge category of stock which is not issuing well and which fills our valuable storage space : the nineteenth-century biographies ; the classics of politics and philosophy ; the long journal runs ; the multi-volume histories ; the ‘ complete ’ works ; the novels , plays and studies of and by yesterday 's men and women ; the giant topographical histories — the accumulated cultural and historical heritage that lies heavily on the stacks and on the reference shelves . |
| 10 | An arrangement whereby a limited partner invests a capital sum in the business which he is not permitted to withdraw until dissolution of the partnership ( which will not automatically occur on death or bankruptcy etc ) and which represents his maximum liability in respect of the firm 's debts and obligations , who is given a profit share but who is excluded from the management of the firm , is doubtless seen as too restrictive . |
| 11 | Borrowings largely relate to NGC , which had £80m of debt at the time of takeover and which finances its rapid growth from cash flow . |
| 12 | Seductive simplicity and relaxed elegance are the key to modern chic — and nobody flaunts it better than the French . |
| 13 | ‘ You pays your money and you takes your chance'-that was war . |
| 14 | When he licks you that 's his way of sayin' ‘ I likes you and you makes me happy ’ . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ There will be no arguments over who gets which CDs and who gets which half of the dining table . |
| 16 | They are custodians of a vast variety of potatoes — hundreds of genetically differing kinds , no doubt containing between them the secrets of natural disease resistance , tolerance of climate change , chemical-free extended shelf-life , frying without fat absorption and who knows what other desirable characteristics . |
| 17 | Now doubts have been cast on the justice meted out to the Tottenham Three , and who knows what other cases will come to light ? |
| 18 | And she drives you insane ! |
| 19 | It gives her tummy ache and she administers something similar when she flattens her daughter 's body , locking it in the tightest of corsets . |
| 20 | And she hopes her youngest children will be able to join her in Canada . |
| 21 | I mean I get the impression that likes working for and myself and she likes her own sphere of influence right which is fair enough as far as it goes |
| 22 | They eat a tremendous amount in the weeks running up the race and she cooks everything fresh . |
| 23 | Her third novel , Another Sort of is due on the shelves by September and she has plenty more ideas in the offing . |
| 24 | Her arms encircle him … and she holds him close |
| 25 | Irene is in a great deal of pain at the moment her bad back is giving her trouble and she finds it difficult to walk . |
| 26 | It is impossible to be indifferent towards her , and she prefers it that way in her criticism , as she preferred it in life . |
| 27 | And she buys them white Swiss cotton , no other . |
| 28 | They are taken to the pond for a bath perhaps by one daughter-in-law , and she baths them all . |
| 29 | The remaining two use many sources and one undertakes its own detailed analyses which are done regularly not only for the planning process but for general economic surveys of geographical areas , industries etc . |
| 30 | Very often one sees schedules which have never been taken beyond the question-asking stage and one wonders what terrible time and effort must be expended on forcing all sorts of answers into categories later on , especially when electronic means of analysis , such as computers , are to be used . |